Grantee tags social practice

The Feminist Strip Club

Sheets, Monica

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

The Feminist Strip Club is a group of current and former erotic dancers who explore the present conditions of and utopian visions for stripping. We hold events, make performances, publish zines, and more. Read More

E Pluribus Unum: Dinétah

Axle Projects

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

This free mobile portrait studio was in locations on and near the Navajo Nation for two weeks, creating over 800 photo portraits. One copy of each was distributed to each participant; another was pasted to the exterior of the gallery-studio. Read More

Eyes on Oakland

Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Through the journalistic lens of community surveillance, this participatory research project and resulting social sculpture investigated ways in which Oakland communities are changing because of new economic pressures. Read More

Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson

Friday, Matthew

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A mobile and modular field station used to document the changing ecologies of the Hudson River watershed and accompanying public programming displayed at Wave Hill. Read More

Tenderloin Art Lending Library

Tenderloin Art Lending Library

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

TALL, the Tenderloin Art Lending Library, is a neighborhood-based, queer-artist - run-project, that loans original artwork, much of it by Tenderloin artists, to poor Tenderloin residents and others free-of-charge. Modeled on social practice, TALL cre Read More

Make Thrift Mend

Rodabaugh, Katrina

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Make Thrift Mend focuses on sustainable fashion, social practice, "art as action”, and reclaiming traditional garment-making skills. It's also a fast-fashion fast that resists factory labor and instead chooses making, mending, and community building. Read More

ArtSourced: Call Center

Roth, Yumi Janairo; Wasserman, Nadine

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

ArtSourced: Call Center is a collaborative project that functions as exhibition & performance space where creative blocks & artistic difficulties are explored & solved; where callers with creativity problems can talk to artist volunteer facilitators. Read More

Link

Sisters of the Lattice (Agnes Bolt and Nina Sarnelle)

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The Sisters of the Lattice are modern mystics exploring the metaphysical potential of common technological devices. Link is an 80-min film and interactive group meditation that chronicles the Sisters of the Lattice's 2012 TransAmerican tour. Read More